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. 2012 May 14;7(5):e36985. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036985

Table 3. Correlation between seizure frequency and clinical parameters.

Seizure frequency
Parameters Low (n = 69) High (n = 48) p Value
Frequency of seizure (per week) 0.1±0.2 4±6.5 <0.001
Age (year) 38±11 37.5±10.7 0.817
Age of onset (year) 20.8±13.2 19.5±13.7 0.632
Duration of epilepsy (year) 17±11.8 17.7±10 0.752
Number of AEDs 2.6±1.2 3.2±1.4 0.015*
Seizure duration (sec) 118.8±172.0 98.6±150.4 0.515
BMI 35.8±7.6 34.3±8.9 0.323
Hypertension: n (%) 5 (7.2) 5 (10.4) 0.738
Diabetes: n (%) 0 (0) 3 (6.3) 0.066
Hyperlipidemia: n (%) 0 (0) 1 (2.1) 0.410
Smoking: n (%) 7 (10.1) 7 (14.6) 0.467
Temporal lobectomy: n (%) 3 (4.3) 7 (14.6) 0.089
Febrile seizure: n (%) 16 (23.2) 3 (6.3) 0.015*
Family history: n (%) 4 (5.8) 4 (8.3) 0.715
Semiology: (GTCS: CPS: SPS,%) 58.2∶ 23.9∶ 17.9 55.6∶ 26.7∶ 17.8 0.943
Basal MDR1 level (%) 7.2±4.0 9.7±6.2 0.009**
Conformational change level (%) 14.2±5.2 14.9±6.0 0.512

BMI = body mass index.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01.